Have a Sugar Addiction? About Obesity, Nutrition, Diabetes
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Have a Sugar Addiction? About Nutrition, Wellness, Diabetes
Because of the American fast food diet, of soda, sugar is consumed in toxic amounts and acts like a drug in the body. This causes hunger, cravings and massive blood sugar fluctuations.
This causes health problems, leads to diabetes, obesity, organ damage and early death.
Minimizing sugar in your diet is a huge secret to effective weight loss and improve your fitness.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Diet, Reducing Inflammation, Lessening Pain with Deborah Norville
The information shared in this video about nutrition is very germane to the prevention or even the reversal of type 2 diabetes.
FoodSpook / publisher of DiabetesResourceSpot.com
COOKING CAN BE FUN!
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CreakyJoints — http://creakyjoints.org — was proud to help sponsor a video series examining ways to improve one’s life despite a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
RA is unlike the more commonly known osteoarthritis, a deterioration of joints due to wear-and-tear. RA is an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks itself, primarily in joints, and can strike at any age. The pain is excruciating, and the bodily deformations caused can be debilitating.
Did you know what you eat can help reduce inflammation? In this segment, Deborah Norville interviews culinary expert and registered dietician Ellie Krieger.
Super Foods for Diabetics
GET YOUR KIDS INTO THE KITCHEN!
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Super Foods for Diabetics
The Blueberry Deception
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Video Information
The blueberries found in blueberry bagels, cereals, breads and muffins are REAL blueberries right? Wrong! Award-winning investigative journalist Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, exposes the deceptive chemical ingredients and dishonest marketing of "blueberry" products from big-name food and cereal companies. The blueberries, it turns out, are made from artificial colors, hydrogenated oils and liquid sugars. See more episodes at www.FoodInvestigations.com
TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO:
Pictures of blueberries are prominently displayed on the front of many food packages. Here they are on boxes of muffins, cereals and breads. But turn the packages around, and suddenly the blueberries disappear. They’re gone, replaced in the ingredients list with sugars, oils and artificial colors derived from petrochemicals.
This bag of blueberry bagels sold at Target stores is made with blueberry bits. And while actual blueberries are found further down the ingredients list, the blueberry bits themselves don’t even contain bits of blueberries. They’re made entirely from sugar, corn cereal, modified food starch, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, artificial flavor, cellulose gum, salt and artificial colors like Blue #2, Red #40, Green #3 and Blue #1. What’s missing from that list? Well, blueberries.
Where did the blueberries go?
They certainly didn’t end up in Total Blueberry Pomegranate Cereal. This cereal, made by General Mills, contains neither blueberries nor pomegranates. They’re nowhere to be found. But the cereal is made with red #40, blue #2 and other artificial colors. And it’s even sweetened with sucralose, a chemical sweetener. And that’s in addition to the sugar, corn syrup and brown sugar syrup that’s already on the label.
A lot of products that imply they’re made with blueberries contain no blueberries at all. And many that do contain a tiny amount of blueberries cut their recipes with artificial blueberry ingredients to make it look like their products contain more blueberries than they really do.
Kellogg’s Blueberry Pop Tarts shows a picture of plump blueberries right on the front of the box. But inside the box, there’s a lot more high fructose corn syrup than actual blueberries. And the corn syrup is given a blueberry color with the addition of — guess what? — red #40, blue #1 and blue #2 chemicals.
Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats also come in a Blueberry Muffin variety, with fresh blueberries prominently featured on the front of the package. But inside, there are no actual blueberries to be found. Instead, you get "blueberry flavored crunchlets" — yes, crunchlets — made from sugars, soybean oil, red #40 and blue #2.
And, if you can believe it, the side panel of this box features the "Frosted Mini Wheats Bite Size" logo, followed by the words "blueberry muffin" with pictures of blueberries, finally followed by "The Whole Truth." Except it really isn’t the whole truth at all. It’s more like a half truth.
These marketing deceptions even continue on Kellogg’s website, where one page claims, "New Special K Blueberry Fruit Crisps are filled with blueberries and drizzled with vanilla icing." Except they aren’t, really. What they’re really filled with is apple powder, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, fructose, sugar, artificial colors red #40 and blue #1, all enhanced with a dash of blueberry puree concentrate.
Even seemingly "healthy" blueberry products can be deceptive. Betty Crocker’s Fiber One Blueberry muffin mix enhances its small amount of actual blueberries with petrochemical colors, too: Red #40, Blue #1 and Blue #2.
At least Betty Crocker’s Blueberry Muffin Mix admits it contains no real blueberries. Well, if you read the fine print, that is. It’s ingredients reveal "Artificial blueberry flavor bits" which are made from dextrose, Corn Flour, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Sugar, Citric Acid, Artificial Flavor, and of course the obligatory Blue #1 and Red #40.
When consumers buy blueberry cereals, muffins and mixes, they’re under the impression that they’re buying real blueberries. No ordinary consumer realizes they’re actually buying blue coloring chemicals mixed with hydrogenated oils and liquid sugars. That’s why this common industry practice of faking the blueberries is so deceptive.
Why can’t food companies just be more honest about it? Nature’s Path Organic Optimum Blueberry-Cinnamon Breakfast Cereal contains — get this — both blueberries and cinnamon.
Better yet, you won’t find any red #40, blue #2 or partially-hydrogenated vegetable oils in Nature’s Path products. They even use organic blueberries and organic cinnamon.
Health Valley Low-Fat Blueberry Tarts are also made with real blueberries. You won’t find any artificial coloring chemicals in this box.
So why can’t Kellogg, Betty Crocker, General Mills and Target stores use real blueberries in their products instead of deceptively formulating them with artificial petrochemical colors that mimic the purple color of blueberries? It’s probably because real blueberries are expensive. And artificial blueberry bits, made with sugar, partially hydrogenated oils and artificial colors, are dirt cheap. If these companies can fool consumers into thinking they’re buying real blueberries in their products, they can command a price premium that translates into increased profits.
Once again, in the food industry, deception pays off. And it pays big.
So what can YOU do to make sure you don’t get scammed by a food company trying to sell you red #40 and Blue #2 as if they were real blueberries? Read the ingredients. If you see artificial colors on the list — and they’re usually found at the very bottom of the ingredients list — just don’t buy that product. Put it back on the shelf and choose something else that’s not deceptively marketed. And that’s how you solve "the case of the missing blueberries."
This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, with Food Investigations for the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center, featured on NaturalNews.TV. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends. And watch NaturalNews.TV for a new episode each week. Take care.
Drinking This “Popular Poison” is Worse than Smoking
Posted By Dr. Mercola | November 21 2011 | 206,111views | 
Disponible en Español
Story at-a-glance
- The soda industry engages in many of the same marketing tactics as Big Tobacco, including forming “independent” front groups, funding research to discredit links to health problems, and making large donations to health organizations
- Soda is linked to numerous health problems among children and adults, including obesity, liver disease and even violent behavior; frequent soft drink consumption is associated with a 9-15% increase in aggressive behavior, according to new research
- Processed foods and junk foods are heavily marketed to kids and promoted to schools; manufacturers of sugar-laden processed foods pay “rebates” (aka “kickbacks”) to food service companies that serve school districts across the United States
- You can fight back against soda and junk-food giants by purchasing healthy, locally grown organic foods instead of processed foods and beverages
By Dr. Mercola
Soda, which is loaded with sugar primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, is a leading contributor to the rising rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases facing Americans.
So when I say that drinking a can of soda is just as bad for you as smoking a cigarette (and maybe even worse) it is not an exaggeration.
Drinking soda is in many ways worse for you than smoking, and it is only because of massive marketing campaigns from the industry that these sugary beverages are deemed acceptable for our most vulnerable members of society – our kids.
In the 21st century there would indeed be an uproar if tobacco companies attempted to target our kids, but the soda companies do it everyday.
It’s time to wake up and face the facts: the soda industry is out for your children, and the message they send is every bit as damaging (and manipulative) as the one spewed by Big Tobacco.
Striking Similarities Between the Soda Industry and Big Tobacco
If I asked you to quickly recall a commercial or slogan from leading soda companies, like Coca-Cola or Pepsi, could you do it?
Chances are you’d have no trouble recalling the friendly polar bear commercials or “the real thing” logo, and if you asked your kids, they’d probably come up with a few too.
This is just the tip of the iceberg for how beverage big-wigs have gotten their products firmly embedded into the homes of millions of Americans and others worldwide. Coca-Cola, for instance, spends close to $3 billion a year on advertising. With that amount of money it’s no wonder the company has managed to hold on to its wholesome reputation.
They, and other beverage giants, are also in the habit of forming strategic alliances with health organizations that make it appear as though they are looking out for your health, which is about as laughable as Big Tobacco sponsoring a marathon. And like Big Tobacco, they also create front groups to fight anti-soda legislation and science.
For instance, as Time magazine reported:
- The American Beverage Association, which represents Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other soft drink producers, has attacked suggestions to tax soda as “discriminatory.” Their organization is touted as a “neutral forum,” but in reality is devoted to discrediting negative press against soft drinks. For instance, in relation to obesity, ABA states, “All of our industry’s beverages can be enjoyed as part of a balanced lifestlye.”
- The soda industry has created the front group Americans Against Food Taxes, which runs anti-tax campaigns. As Kelly Brownell wrote in Time:
“The name of the group implies a patriotic, grass roots movement, not a highly financed entity initiated and organized by industry.”
- Another industry-created front group, Foundation for a Healthy America, recently donated $10 million to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to research and prevent childhood obesity! Diet Coke has also teamed up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to raise awareness for women’s heart health programs and was the official “Beverage of Choice” for the 2010 winter Olympics.
- The soda industry funds research to discredit links between soda drinking and health problems. Brownwell writes:
“The tobacco industry paid scientists who did research disputing links between smoking and lung cancer, the addictive nature of nicotine, and the dangers of second-hand smoke. The soda industry funds scientists who reliably produce research showing no link between SSB [sugar-sweetened beverage] consumption and health. The tobacco industry bought favor from community and national organizations by giving large donations. In an ironic twist, Coca Cola and PepsiCo are corporate sponsors of the American Dietetic Association.”
The Coca-Cola Company Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness (isn’t that name an oxymoron?) even creates continuing education courses for registered dietitians!
The Top Reason to Give Soda the Boot …
Some of you reading this are undoubtedly thinking, how bad could soda really be? From my perspective, there is absolutely NO REASON you or your kids should ever drink soda. If you were stranded in the middle of a desert with no other fluid available, then maybe, but other than that … none, nada, zip, zero. No excuses.
From a health perspective, drinking Coke or any soft drink is a disaster. Just one extra can of soda per day can add as much as 15 pounds to your weight over the course of a single year, not to mention increase your risk of diabetes by 85 percent. The primary reason why soda is so dangerous to your health?
Fructose.
The fructose content of the high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) used in many popular soda brands has been sorely underestimated. Around 100 years ago the average American consumed a mere 15 grams of fructose a day, primarily in the form of fruit. One hundred years later, one fourth of Americans are consuming more than 135 grams per day, largely in the form of soda.
Fructose at 15 grams a day is harmless (unless you suffer from high uric acid levels). However, at nearly 10 times that amount it becomes a major cause of obesity and nearly all chronic degenerative diseases. Instead of consisting of 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose, many soda brands, including Coke, Pepsi and Sprite, contain as much as 65 percent fructose, nearly 20 percent higher than originally believed.
According to one study, the mean fructose content of all 23 sodas tested was 59 percent — higher than claimed by the industry. When you consider that Americans drink an average of 53 to 57 gallons of soda per year (depending on the source of your statistics), this difference in actual fructose content could make a huge difference in your health.
The Down and Dirty About Fructose
The American Beverage Association and other front groups will try to persuade you that fructose in high fructose corn syrup is no worse for you than sugar, but this is not true. ABA also claims there is “no association between high fructose corn syrup and obesity,” but a long lineup of scientific studies suggest otherwise.
For example:
- Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital did a study of the effects of sugar-sweetened drinks on obesity in children. He found that for each additional serving of a sugar-sweetened drink, both body mass index and odds of obesity increased.
- The Fizzy Drink Study in Christchurch, England explored the effects on obesity when soda machines were removed from schools for one year. In the schools where the machines were removed, obesity stayed constant. In the schools where soda machines remained, obesity rates continued to rise.
- In a 2009 study, 16 volunteers were fed a controlled diet including high levels of fructose. Ten weeks later, the volunteers had produced new fat cells around their hearts, livers and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. A second group of volunteers who were fed a similar diet, but with glucose replacing fructose, did not have these problems.
Fructose is also a likely culprit behind the millions of U.S. children struggling with non-alcoholic liver disease, which is caused by a build-up of fat within liver cells. Fructose is very hard on your liver, in much the same way as drinking alcohol.
- Liver burden number one: After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver—ONLY your liver can break it down. This is much different than consuming glucose, in which your liver has to break down only 20 percent, and the remaining 80 percent is immediately metabolized and used by the rest of the cells in your body.
- Liver burden number two: Fructose is converted into fat that gets stored in your liver and other tissues as body fat. Part of what makes fructose so bad for your health is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar. For example, if you eat 120 calories of fructose, 40 calories are stored as fat. But if you eat the same amount of glucose, less than one calorie gets stored as fat. Consuming fructose is essentially consuming fat!
Fructose metabolism is very similar to the way alcohol is metabolized, which has a multitude of toxic metabolites that, if consumed in excess, can lead to non-alcoholic liver disease. For a complete discussion of fructose metabolism, see my comprehensive article about this.
Diet Soda is NOT a Safe Alternative to Regular Soda
If you think you’re better off drinking diet soda, think again. In fact, if I had to choose between the two, I’d take regular soda over diet. Instead of fructose, diet soda contains artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame or sucralose (Splenda). With all the research now available on aspartame and its various ingredients, it’s hard to believe such a chemical would even be allowed into the food supply, but it is, and it’s been silently wreaking havoc with people’s health for the past 30 years.
Just to refresh your memory, aspartame has been linked to the following health concerns, and Splenda is associated with many similar problems:
Lymphomas, leukemias, and brain cancer
AsthmaNeurological symptoms including headaches, depressed and anxious mood, seizures, memory loss, hallucinations, and dizziness
Visual changesWeakness and fatigue
Joint painSleep disorders
Weight gain and diabetesAbdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea
Rashes and hives
Does Soda Actually Cause Violence?
It’s a well-known fact that poor diet, particularly one high in sugar, exacts a toll on your emotional health.
For example, one recent study published in the journal Psychology Today found a strong link between high sugar consumption and the risk of both depression and schizophrenia. It’s also a well-known fact that chronic inflammation plays a major role in heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer. So consuming excessive amounts of sugary beverages can truly set off an avalanche of negative health events — both mental and physical.
A diet high in sugar, fructose and sweetened beverages like soda also causes excessive insulin release, which can lead to falling blood sugar levels, or hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia, in turn, causes your brain to secrete glutamate in levels that can cause agitation, depression, anger, anxiety and panic attacks.
One 1985 study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found that reducing sugar intake had a positive impact on emotions. And another, the Los Angeles Probation Department Diet-Behavior Program: An Empirical Analysis of Six Institutional Settings, published in 1983, documented the results when juvenile delinquents were given a reduced-sugar diet. They saw a 44 percent reduction in the incidence of antisocial behavior during the subsequent 3 months, after the implementation of the revised diet.
So can drinking soda affect your child’s behavior?
Yes, it can.
A new study further supported this point, and revealed that frequent soft drink consumption was associated with a 9-15% point increase in the probability of engaging in aggressive actions, even after controlling for gender, age, race, body mass index, typical sleep patterns, tobacco use, alcohol use and having family dinners.
“There was a significant and strong association between soft drinks and violence. There may be a direct cause-and-effect relationship, perhaps due to the sugar or caffeine content of soft drinks, or there may be other factors, unaccounted for in our analyses, that cause both high soft drink consumption and aggression.”
The effect is not a new finding, as in 1979 the now notorious “Twinkie Defense” was used in a murder trial for the first time.
“In a notorious 1979 San Francisco murder trial, lawyers blamed the killer’s actions on his recent switch from a health-food diet to one filled with Coca-Cola and other junk food. Their argument worked. Instead of a homicide ruling, the defendant was convicted of a lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter. The legal strategy became known as the “Twinkie Defense,” and the precedent raised a number of questions that persist, despite years of research on the subject.”
Processed Food “Rebates” Dominate School Cafeterias
Soda manufacturers are not the only ones scheming for a permanent share of your child’s diet. In an article published on La Vida Locavore, Ed Bruske revealed, possibly for the first time, that manufacturers of sugar-laden processed foods pay “rebates” (aka “kickbacks”) to food service companies that serve school districts across the United States.
Bruske obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act that revealed more than 100 companies paid rebates to Chartwells, a food service management company hired by D.C. Public Schools. As you might suspect, the “rebates” present a conflict of interest that could prompt Chartwells to order food for your children based on the amount of rebate it will receive, versus the food’s nutritional value.
The end result?
School lunches that contain heavily processed foods like muffins, pizza, tator tots and flavored milk in lieu of fresh produce.
According to Bruske:
“Manufacturers pay rebates based on large volume purchases — literally, cash for placing an order. Rebates are said to be worth billions of dollars to the nation’s food industry, although manufacturers as well as the food service companies who feed millions of the nation’s school children every day — Chartwells, Sodexo and Aramark — treat them as a closely-guarded secret.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that food service companies engaged in “cost reimbursable” contracts with schools credit any rebates they receive to their school clients. For more than a year, attorneys for D.C. Public Schools refused to make public an itemized list of rebates collected by Chartwells, claiming the information constituted “trade secrets.” The schools were overruled by Mayor Vincent Gray’s legal counsel after I filed an administrative appeal.
John Carroll, an assistant New York State attorney general investigating rebating practices there, has said rebates pose “an inherent conflict of interest” in school feeding programs because they favor highly processed industrial foods. In cases where schools pay a food service company a flat rate to provide meals, the companies are not required to disclose the rebates they collect. In those cases, Carroll recently told a U.S. Senate Panel, rebates tend to drive up the cost of food, cheating children out of nutrition they might otherwise have on their lunch trays.
Carroll also described cases where rebates discouraged the use of local farm products in school meals. Produce vendors can’t afford to pay a rebate for local apples. But in at least one case, a produce distributor raised the prices of his goods so that he could pay a rebate to a food service company. A Homeland Security sub-committee in the U.S. Senate is investigating possible rebate fraud in contracts across the entire federal government.”
The top contributors to Chatwells’ rebate dollars included Performance Food Group, which paid more than $400,000 over the last three years, followed by General Mills, Kraft Foods, Country Pure Foods and Jenny-O Turkey. Other companies who made the list include:
ConAgra
Otis Spunkmeyer
Kellog’s
Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, 7-Up
FritoLay
Tyson
Nestle
Cargill Meat Solutions
Campbell’s Foodservice
Raising a Life-Long Healthy Eater
Food and beverage companies spend $2 billion a year promoting unhealthy foods to kids, and while ultimately it’s the parents’ responsibility to feed their children healthy foods, junk food ads make this much more difficult than it should be. As a result, the state of most kids’ diets in the United States is not easy to swallow.
As The Interagency Working Group on Foods Marketed to Children (IWG) reported:
- Nearly 40% of children’s diets come from added sugars and unhealthy fats
- Only 21% of youth age 6-19 eat the recommended five or more servings of fruits and vegetables each day
This is a veritable recipe for disease, and is a primary reason why today’s kids are arguably less healthy than many prior generations. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure — these are diseases that once appeared only in middle-age and beyond, but are now impacting children. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that by 2050, one in three U.S. adults will have diabetes — one of them could be your child if you do not take steps to cancel out the messages junk-food marketers are sending and instead teach them healthy eating habits.
Make no mistake, the advertisers are doing all they can to lure your child in, just as Big Tobacco did generations ago.
So you need to first educate yourself about proper nutrition and the dangers of junk food and processed foods in order to change the food culture of your entire family. To give your child the best start at life, and help instill healthy habits that will last a lifetime, you must lead by example. Children will simply not know which foods are healthy unless you, as a parent, teach it to them first.
My nutrition plan offers a step-by-step guide to feed your family right, and I encourage you to read through it now to learn how to make healthy eating decisions for you and your children.
If you want to get involved on a larger scale, the Prevention Institute’s “We’re Not Buying It” campaign is petitioning President Obama to put voluntary, science-based nutrition guidelines into place for companies that market foods to kids. You can sign this petition now. I also urge you to go a step further and stop supporting the companies that are marketing junk foods and beverages to your children today.
Ideally, you and your family will want to vote with your pocketbook and avoid processed food and sugary sodas while instead choosing unprocessed raw, organic and/or locally grown foods as much as possible. These are the foods your child will thrive on, and it’s important they learn what real, healthy food is right from the get-go.
This way, when they become tweens and teenagers, they may eat junk food here and there at a friend’s house, but they will return to real food as the foundation of their diet — and that habit will continue on with them for a lifetime.
Source: Dr. Mercola, Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
To People Who Want To Know Number of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics
By: Victor Salazar
Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics is very important. A 1200 calorie diabetic diet limits consumption of carbohydrates, fats and proteins so that you obtain only 1200 calories per day and nothing more than that. You can use this diet to manage blood sugar or to lose weight. You can take the help of a registered dietitian to plan your diet.
While planning your diet always keep in mind that in place of large meals take small meals and increase number of meals, for example change the regular three meal pattern with a six meal pattern by increasing snacks between the meals. In Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics always give preference to fresh food in place of refined and processed foods. Drink lots of water because it is calorie free and helps to flush away the toxins.
Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics in the breakfast will include one wheat bread with low fat butter or a cup of cereal with a boiled egg and one small fruit. For a lunch options are mixed salad, baked potato, and French bread pizza. You can also add some vegetables like broccoli, bell peppers, cabbage etc. For a dinner select grilled chicken or fish and pasta salad or mix vegetable salad with some dressing.
To ensure the right quantities of these foods you can take the help of a dietitian.
To plan the Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics a diet above food list is not obligatory and you can make alternative of foods and also control calorie consumption. This can be done with the exchange system. The exchange food system supplies information about food content from which you can easily estimate calories in any food. It also helps to conserve the balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats during the day.
Before developing diet plans you must know your nutritional requirement in terms of calories, then select the food from exchange list and plan your daily meal corresponding to your calorie requirement.
The exchange system has six different lists of foods and food from each exchange group is well specified so that one serving of each food has the same amount of carbohydrates, proteins, and fat. These groups are starch/bread, vegetables, fruit, milk, meat and fat. From each food list a certain number of exchange choices are allowed, but amount and type of these exchanges are established on a daily exercise, insulin injections, blood pressure and body weight.
The food replacement can be done only within an exchange list but not between lists even if they have the same calorie count. In the exchange lists some foods are free; these foods have less than 20 calories per serving.
In the Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics you can include five exchanges of starch/bread exchange group, two exchanges of vegetable group, three exchanges of fruit group, two exchanges of milk group, four exchanges of meat and three exchanges of fat group. Each exchange of starch/bread group has 80 calories. In vegetable exchange group each group has 5 grams of proteins, 5 grams of carbohydrates and 2 grams of fiber.
In fruit exchange group each exchange has about 60 calories. For a Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics with a 1 200 calorie diet avoid artificially sweetened milk and add skim or very low-fat milk and milk substitutes. When you select meat take off the fat before cooking.
In the Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics you can include high fat meat exchanges maximum three times a week. Add fat exchange in very small amount. In this calorie diet avoid saturated and trans-fatty acid in place of that choose polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats.
In Number Of Carbs Per Day For Diabetics you can drink lots of water because it is calorie free and helps to flush away the toxins.
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Fat Kids, Fat Parents
Source: Uploaded by PaulChekLive on Aug 28, 2008 to YouTube
Sean is pleading to our parents to be vigilant about the food we feed our children and to become more aware of hidden toxins that can and do put our children at great risk. This video explains Sean’s premise of Fat Kids, Fat Parents. FoodSpook.
Sean lets it go in this passionate video about our degrading American culture promoted by ignorant, apathetic parents conditioned by greedy athletes who know better than to sell kids junk food for money. Sean explains how parents unknowingly feed their children unhealthy foods full of toxins.
Nutrition Facts Labels: How to Read, FAQ Parts 1 & 2
Part 1 of 2
Understanding Nutrition Facts Labels
Uploaded by psychetruth on Dec 19, 2007 to YouTube
Natalie explains;
Ingredient list, serving Size, fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, fiver, sugars, proteins, vitamins and minerals and daily percents on a nutrition facts label placed on food. Know what you buy at the grocery store.
This helps you understand what you eat and make healthy choices for health and weight loss and fitness.
Part 2
“childhood obesity” asthma, diabetes, allergies, “food allergies”, ADHD, behavior problems
Source: Uploaded by lunalas on Oct 19, 2009 to YouTube
Hang in there parents of children with ADHD, asthma, diabetes, obesity, allergies, food allergies, bloody noses, agression, depression, doing badly in school, fighting, eating junk food, Mcdonald’s junkie.
I have had a dream/vision after many hours of praying and meditating for my son. There is a little known connection between babies on commercial formula, milk allergy, food allergies, asthma, diabetes and obesity including various behavorial problems. I am going to finish my research and write an e- book which will be available soon for a very low price that anyone can afford. It will be less than $10. I am going to make the connections your doctor won’t make because he is being paid by the pharmaceutical industry and wants to keep your child sick and on medications for life. Let’s all get together and run these horrible people and corporations off.
If you want to learn more about your child’s allergies, asthma, diabetes, behavior problems, bloody noses, aggression, depression, trouble in school, addiction to processed and junk foods, send $2 to Paypal with your email address for a full report. lunalas@cox.net ….soon I will have an e-book.
Sugar Is A Drug: How to Overcome Sugar Cravings, Lose Weight & Stabilize Mood
Source: Uploaded by PaulChekLive on Apr 12, 2009 to Youtube
CHEK HLC, Sean Croxton of http://www.undergroundwellness.com explains why its better to see sugar as a drug rather than a simple food item.
5 Easy Weight Loss Tips For Kids (UK)
By Andrewd
Kids are often loved when they are chubby and rotund, instead of being skinny and small. But it is this mindset that puts kids ate the risk of obesity and overweight issues. Why would you condone a kids binge eating and snacking on unhealthy food like chips and fires, when it is the toddlers who fall prey to obesity most often? Well, to ease your worries if you have a kid who is fat, we have some easy weight loss tips for you to follow through on.
If you were worried that weight loss in UK was only dependent on exercise and safe slimming pills & natural slimming pills had no impact whatsoever on health, these tips might just change your mind. For the better or for the worse, is for you to decide!
1. Send The Kids to The Playground: Kids these days seem to be glued to the TV, computers or their PlayStation & Xbox. No matter how much fun this might seem to be (even to you, as an adult yeah gaming is addictive!), it damages the prospects of good physical health by a sledgehammer. Send them kids to play outside. This will not only help kids achieve weight loss, UK physicians believe it will also improve their horrendous social skills so rampant today.
2. Healthy Eating Should Run in the Family: Remember, your kids are not going to eat a lettuce dish unless you are eating it too and in ample amounts that make the kids feel they are better off than the adults! Healthy eating should be a part of the family plan for effective weight loss in UK & beyond and it serves all purposes involved.
3. Mind that Dinner: A lot of parents feel that since their kids could not lunch properly at school, they should force-feed the toddlers triple the amount that a healthy dinner should be restricted to. Dinners should be light, especially as most kids go to sleep right after, without any trace of physical activity at all.
4. Ensure the Kids Have Healthy, Full Meals: Lunchboxes should not be made into dripping chunks of fat and calories just to get the kids to eat up. Compensate the green lunch with healthy food, and throw in a candy bar or a similar goodie to freshen up the eating schedule for the toddlers. Weight loss will come up as a natural result from such steps.
5. Make Weight Loss Tips Fun for Them: Remember, your kid is not a 30-year old parent like you and would be bored quickly if you use the same weight loss tips every day. Make weight loss fun for them incorporating weight reduction strategies into games and fun activities. You will slim down the kids and will also win new fans of you in them!
The best weight loss in UK is with the help of safe slimming pills as well as novel techniques to execute flawless weight loss. But for kids, you need to be extra careful. Not only does the flab-fighting be safe, but it also needs to be fun for the kids too!
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Obesity is Getting Bigger in the United States
July 7th, 2011
Obesity is getting bigger in the United States
Two-thirds of all adults and about a third of all children and teenagers in the United States are overweight or obese according to a report release Thursday by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
According to “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011,” adult obesity increased in 16 states during the past year and rates soared to 30% or more in these 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Four years ago, only one state – Mississippi – had an adult obesity rate of more than 30%. No state showed a decrease in it obesity rate in Thursday’s report.
Nine of the 10 states with the highest adult obesity numbers are in the South. Mississippi, for the seventh year in a row, had the highest adult obesity rate at 34.4%. Colorado, at 19.8%, had the lowest, and in fact is the only state in the country with an adult obesity rate under 20%. Twenty years ago no rate was above 15%. The report found rates grew fastest in Alabama, Tennessee and Oklahoma and slowest in Colorado, Connecticut and the District of Columbia.
“There was a clear tipping point in our national weight gain over the last twenty years,” said Jeff Levi, Executive director of TFAH. “And we can’t afford to ignore the impact obesity has on our health and corresponding health care spending.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the medical costs associated with obesity are staggering– totaling about $147 billion in 2008. More than 80% of people in this country with type-2 diabetes are overweight and new diagnoses doubled in 10 years, according to Thursday’s report. Overweight and obese people are at risk of developing high blood pressure and high cholesterol, risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke. They may also be at greater risk of colon, kidney and esophageal cancer.
African Americans, Latinos, those with low incomes and less education had the highest overall rates, topping 30 to 40% in many states. The report found about 33% of adults who made less than $15,000 a year or did not graduate from high school were obese.
The researchers found that a lack of access to fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthful foods in some neighborhoods and a dearth of safe community areas for families to walk and for children to play all factor into the obesity epidemic.
But there’s more to it. “Portion sizes in restaurants are much larger than they have been, soft drinks at convenience stores are much larger than they have been,” said Dr. James Marks, senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “When people have a larger size they will eat more. Snacking has gone up more and more. All of these things contribute.”
“We’ve built inactivity into our lifestyles. We’ve designed communities around cars,” said Levi. “Kids are watching TV and sitting around computers. We’ve found plenty of ways to entertain ourselves that don’t include activity.”
“The information in this report should spur us all – individuals and policymakers alike – to redouble our efforts to reverse this debilitating and costly epidemic,” said Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Changing policies is an important way to provide children and families with vital resources and opportunities to make healthier choices easier in their day-to day-lives.”
Recommendations include making sure all food and drinks sold in schools meet the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans, increasing access to quality and affordable foods, expanding the amount and intensity of physical activity in schools and in out-of-school programs, increasing physical activity by providing communities safe places to walk, bike and play, introducing pricing incentives to help people buy healthier foods and regulating how and where unhealthy foods are marketed to children.
Marks says what’s particularly tragic is the increase in type 2 diabetes among younger adults and kids. “Since the 1970s, the rate of obesity has tripled or quadrupled in children,” said Marks. “We’ve got an even larger problem coming in our children.”
Source: Saundra Young – CNN Medical Senior Producer
Patti Labelle: Living with Diabetes
Source: Uploaded by mediaADA on Jun 28, 2007 to YouTube
Patti Labelle explains how working with a registered dietitian can help you live a healthy life if you have diabetes.
The Truth About Sugar – Parts 1 and 2- Time: 18:36
Nutrition by Natalie
Sugar Shock
How much sugar do you consume? You might be surprised just how much sugar there is in everyday food. In this video, Natalie shows you the shocking truth about how much sugar you’re consuming.
You will be surprised just how much sugar there is in common things like a soft drink, McDonalds Value Meal, fast food, Starbucks drinks, etc.
Natalie shows you how much sugar there is in certain food items including; blueberry muffins, orange juice, a poptart, Lucky Charms cereal, barbecue sauce, a Coke, Gatorade sports drink, a Starbucks Chocolate Frappuccino Mocha, a chocolate cake dessert and others.
Natalie also talks about the relationship of sugar and high fructose corn syrup to weight gain, energy, diabetes and health.
This video is an eye opener even if you aren’t on a diet.
Part Two
Foods to Eat With Type 2 Diabetes – What to Serve a Diabetic Friend
By RJ Brand
Keeping to a healthily balanced diet is important for everybody, and it is even more important for people suffering from any form of diabetes (and pre-diabetes). Foods to eat with type 2 diabetes are basically the same foods as you would serve to anyone following a low fat weight control regime. In short, nothing is forbidden but the amount consumed of certain things needs to be minimized.
Most people associate diabetes with a boring and restricted diet. If you have a friend or relative diagnosed with diabetes, the first time you prepare a meal for them can be a bit worrying, but it needn’t be. Don’t forget that the diabetic person will have been taught how to take care of themselves when it comes to matters of diet. As long as you don’t serve food that is too fatty, loaded with sugar or high in carbohydrates, the person with type 2 diabetes will be able to enjoy the meal in safety.
The importance of what is eaten by people with type 2 diabetes should not be underestimated; weight control is one of the first things to learn about how to manage diabetes and keeping blood sugar levels balanced is vital. Certain foods are recommended as being particularly beneficial for diabetics: for example, soya beans, chicken and curd, so opt for cooking chicken rather than beef. Starchy or sugary foods raise blood sugar, so they should be avoided; include plenty of non-starchy vegetables in the meal instead of highly processed foods such as white bread or rice.
The recommended diet of a diabetic is designed to maintain a steady level of blood glucose (sugar). If the person suffering from type 2 diabetes does not stick to an appropriate diet, their blood sugar levels can fluctuate and the health of the diabetic person will be in jeopardy if the level goes too high or too low. The diabetic person could fall into a coma, and you can die as a result of diabetic coma.
Diabetes occurs when the a person’s pancreas fails to produce a hormone called insulin, or fails to produce sufficient quantities of insulin for normal functioning, or the person’s body fail to use insulin properly. The result of any of these factors is that sugar is not absorbed into the body’s cells and instead builds up in the bloodstream. It is well-known that too much sugar can be very dangerous for a diabetic (particularly if they don’t exercise), so it is obviously safer to avoid cakes and pastries, but it should also be borne in mind that some fruits have a higher sugar content than is desirable.
As with any low fat diet, certain foods are best avoided altogether, while other foods can be eaten in small portions; the amount of fat consumed is important, and the number of calories must be considered at the same time. When you are first learning about the type of foods to eat with type 2 diabetes, it can seem like a minefield; it is obviously worrying to think about how seriously food can affect a person with type 2 diabetes. The safest way of dealing with catering for diabetic friends or relatives is to invest in a proper diabetic cookbook; this will remove any element of guesswork for you and make mealtimes pleasurable.
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Fruit Juice = Diabetes!
STOP DRINKING ALL THAT JUICE!
Underground Wellness dips into the common misconceptions surrounding that so called healthy substance we call juice.
This information is to inform you on nutrition matters. It is not intended to make any suggestions regarding medicine, pharmaceutical drugs, or give medical advice. Do your research and consult your doctor.
Source: PaulChekLive on YouTube
What to Eat: Sensible Choices in an Era of Food Confusion
Proper nutrition is on all of our minds, but how do we make smart choices in today’s world of savvy marketing? Join us for this eye-opening lecture from one of the leading author’s on how the food industry influences our nutrition and health. Marion Nestle, Ph.D., is an author and professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. Series: “UCSD Moores Cancer Center Presents”
Source: UCtelevision on YouTube
Truth About Lucky Charms Kids Cereal
Nutrition By Natalie
Source: psychetruth on YouTube
The Many Health Benefits of Ground Flax Seed
By Rich Fuller
Controlling blood sugar levels is very important for people who suffer diabetes and also those who may be at risk of developing it. Flax seed and flax seed oil both contain omega 3, an essential fatty acid and also a mucilage.
In the past twenty or so years it has been encouraged by health professionals to keep fat intake to a minimum in our diets. This has driven more people towards a diet high in carbohydrates, which serve to increase blood sugar levels. The result is extra insulin being produced, causing the blood sugar to dip down low. Having these peaks and drops in the levels of sugar in your blood causes weight gain through food cravings and hunger pains. The increased weight along with the continued ups and downs of the sugar levels is what causes type two diabetes to begin its attack.
Studies have shown that essential fatty acids can suppress hunger without causing changes in blood sugar. A combination of these two effects can result in prevention or control of diabetes.
The mucilage properties to flax seed also contributes to controlling the blood sugar levels. It lines the digestive tract, slowing absorption of carbohydrates which can otherwise be processed too quickly, flooding the bloodstream in excess. When they are absorbed slowly through a healthy lined digestive tract they are treated the same as a good carbohydrates, leaving no residue or sugar over-doses.
If you are interested in taking a flax seed supplement for blood sugar control, consider having both the seed and oil form. You can sprinkle the powder on your cereal, salads or in smoothies. The oil can be used in the same ways or taken in capsules and on a daily basis is best for maximum benefits to be seen. Using both forms as a dietary supplement of essential 3 fatty acids, omega 3 can certainly fix mild to moderate blood sugar level problems.
Being an appetite suppressant, preventing blood sugar rises and drops and slowing carbohydrate absorption all contribute to why flax seed and flax seed oil is fantastic as a dietary supplement for diabetics. If someone in your family suffers, consider taking it daily as well to prevent having the same problems. You could be saving yourself a lot of health problems, and will no doubt experience many other benefits it provides as well.
Learn more about the benefits of flax seed and cancer on our site. You’ll also find other information such as flax seed grindersand flax seed oil is good for heart. OmegaFlaxSeedOil.comis a comprehensive resource to help individuals gain the benefits of essential nutrition such as flax seed oil, omega 3 and vitamin B12.
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Sample Diabetes Diet Menu
By Denchi Minh
When a person is diabetic they are advised to go to a licensed dietician in order to provide them with a diabetes diet menu.
The diabetes diet menu is a specialized kind of diet that aims to help a diabetic lose weight and reduce their blood sugar levels. A reduction 500 calories in a daily basis can result to a pound of weight lost in a week’s time.
The diabetes diet menu gives you an option in choosing the meal that would complement the required calories you need each day. Each menu that is given by the dietician provides calories in such a manner than 50 percent are for calories, 20 percent are from proteins and 30 percent coming from fats.
Each meal is complimented by a snack so you wouldn’t have to go hungry at all. These meals are to be complemented by exercise in order for you to achieve the goal you need, which is of course reducing your weight.
Below is a sample diabetic diet menu that covers for an entire day.
• Breakfast sample menu
o 2 4½-in waffles laced with 2 tsp margarine
o 4 Tbsp. light syrup
o 1 cup yogurt
o ¾ cup blackberries
o A cup of Coffee or tea
• Lunch sample menu
o 1 cup chili with beans
o 12 crackers
o ½ cup broccoli or ½ cup cauliflower
o 1 apple
o A diet soda
• Dinner sample menu
o 4 oz. hamburger in a 1 hamburger bun. It is laced with 1 tablespoon ketchup, 2 lettuce leaves and 2 tomato slices
o 1 cup of celery sticks
o 1 cup of watermelon
o 2 tablespoon of peanut butter for the sticks
o Skim milk
Diabetics are required to lose weight in order for their body to improve its tolerance to insulin. Insulin is used by the body in order to effectively convert sugar into energy. The body cannot properly transpose sugar into energy because of the high levels of fats in the system.
The body becomes tolerant to the insulin it secretes and by then the body cannot effectively use the glucose in the blood. When this happens the body needs to inject higher dosage of insulin in order to counter act the amount of glucose in the blood.
We should take note that a diabetes diet menu doesn’t mean they will have to stop eating sweets or their favorite dishes. The diabetic only needs to reduce them in a minimal level.
For more diabetes diet menu information, visit Diabetes Diet Menu Guide and Start Reversing the Effects of Diabetes though a proper diet.
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